Manuals, Guides and Toolkits

Block, Bridge and Build: Playbook for an Inclusive Multi-Racial Democracy

Tools and frameworks for pro-democracy organizations and organizers on the front lines of the fight against authoritarianism.

Rural and Remote Communities Climate Organizing Toolkit

Toolkit aims to support climate organizers in rural & remote communities to transform themselves & their communities into climate leaders.

How to Win Campaigns: Communications for Change

How to Win Campaigns is a practical guide for creating & running successful campaigns. Written for the new campaigner and the experienced.

Magic Boxes: Campaign Planning Tool

Magic Boxes is a simple campaign planning tool, especially useful for new campaigning groups, shared by Chris Rose.

Making A Campaign Concept: Campaign Planning Star Diagram

Stuck with how to start your campaign? Here is a tool by Chris Rose called the Campaign Planning Star Diagram to get you started.

12 Basic Guidelines for Campaign Strategy

12 basic guidelines and ideas about campaign strategy by Chris Rose. These guidelines are so fundamental that they are often overlooked.

$Workbook cover - Title reads 'Right-Sized Belonging: Six Practices For Organizers'. A dark forest green quilt with 8 colorful earth-tone patches assembled around the center. The center of the quilt is an overhead of a light-skinned southeast asian person with dark brown hair sewing using a white sewing machine. Around them are 8 patches they have quilted, symbolizing concepts and skills of “nested belonging”, “right-sized belonging”, “anchoring your purpose”, “approaching problems with collective governance”, “setting boundaries & expectations”, “understanding trauma & build emotional skill”, “increasing conflict resilience”, and “connecting to a broader movement ecosystem” (in length descriptions below for each quilt patch). The edges of the quilt are embellished with thin eggshell threading of different fractals found in nature, including in spiderwebs, mountain formations, dandelions, butterflies, solar systems, and snowflakes. How natural belonging is if we look at its evidence in patterns of nature!$

Right-Sized Belonging: Six Practices For Organizers

A website and toolkit of 6 suggested practices for organizers and organizations to implement in their own spaces to create belonging.

Empowering Leaderful Organizing: Competencies & Tools

Empower your groups and movements with an A – Z list of training tools for organizing and activist work by Leaderful Organizing.

Speaking Out Against Bigoted, Dehumanizing Rhetoric: What We Can Do

This guide documents the surge in antisemitic and Islamophobic hate incidents, explains the link between rhetoric and violence, and provides suggestions and resources to take action.

1/6: The Graphic Novel: What if the Attack on the U.S. Capitol Succeeded?

1/6 The Graphic Novel is a comic about the US Capitol attacks in 2021. It asks what if the insurrection had been successful?

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Activist Handbook: Writing Guides for Activists

The Activist Handbook is a Wikipedia-like site for everyone to exchange knowledge and experiences on activism.

Conversation Guide: Trust in Elections (Local)

Conversation Guide about democracy from Living Room Conversations who use guided conversations to build understanding & transform communities.

Leaderful Organizing

The Leaderful Organizing Toolkit is a comprehensive resource that offers practical guidance, tools, and examples for fostering leadership and collective action within organizations and movements.

Photograph of a report with the title 'Passing the Message Stick'

The 2023 Voice Referendum Outcome: A Messaging Guide

In the aftermath of a challenging referendum loss, our communities are facing a critical juncture. GetUp and Australian Progress offer a messaging guide for social change organisations, helping you speak out and channel emotions into constructive action. Read an excerpt and download the full report.

Australian Blockading Handbooks

A collection of Australian Blockading Handbooks from the 1980s to the present including the Daintree, Franklin River, Jabiluka, etc.

Introduction to Digital Organizing

A primer designed by re:power to help you understand how to best use digital organizing strategies and tactics to strengthen your electoral and advocacy organizing work.